David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 9
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
Released Oct. 13, 1967
Episode 55 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.arts, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.music-documentary, imdb.documentary-series, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S9E1 - Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour
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Sept. 21, 1975, midnight
S9E2 - The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony
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Sept. 28, 1975, midnight
S9E3 - Big Ware
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Oct. 5, 1975, midnight
S9E4 - Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne
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Oct. 12, 1975, midnight
S9E5 - Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind
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Oct. 19, 1975, midnight
S9E6 - Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death
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Oct. 26, 1975, midnight
S9E7 - Shafts of Sunlight
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Nov. 2, 1975, midnight
S9E8 - The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing
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Nov. 23, 1975, midnight
S9E9 - The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll
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Nov. 30, 1975, midnight
S9E10 - Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household
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Dec. 7, 1975, midnight
S9E11 - Jane Austen
A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.
Dec. 14, 1975, midnight
S9E12 - Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley
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Dec. 21, 1975, midnight
S9E13 - Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays
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Dec. 21, 1975, midnight
S9E14 - The Golden Age of Spanish Painting
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Jan. 15, 1976, midnight
S9E15 - The Waltz
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Jan. 22, 1976, midnight
S9E16 - Omnibus in Ireland
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Jan. 29, 1976, midnight
S9E17 - All Clouds Are Clocks
An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001
Feb. 5, 1976, midnight
S9E18 - A Matter of Life & Death
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Feb. 12, 1976, midnight
S9E19 - Constable Exhibition
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Feb. 19, 1976, midnight
S9E20 - Charles Marowitz
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Feb. 26, 1976, midnight
S9E21 - A Kind of Innocence
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March 4, 1976, midnight
S9E22 - Placido Domingo
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March 11, 1976, midnight
S9E23 - Portraits
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March 18, 1976, midnight
S9E24 - The Honourable Out -Of- Step
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March 25, 1976, midnight
S9E25 - Richard Avendon
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April 1, 1976, midnight
S9E26 - The Spirit of the Land
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April 8, 1976, midnight
S9E27 - Monsieur Hulot's Work
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May 13, 1976, midnight
S9E29 - Far Away
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May 27, 1976, midnight
S9E30 - John Constable
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June 3, 1976, midnight
S9E31 - The Sound of Islam
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June 10, 1976, midnight
S9E32 - The Green Table- Around the Green Table
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June 17, 1976, midnight
S9E33 - An Evening with Gene Kelly
Dancer, choreographer, director and father of the 'new' American musical of the 1940s. He talks to Gavin Millar about his early life, the struggles to become a dancer and the great days at MGM when a new form of 'cinema-dance' was invented
June 24, 1976, midnight
S9E34 - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.
July 1, 1976, midnight
S9E35 - Beyond a Boundary
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July 8, 1976, midnight
BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
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